On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:08:57PM +0200, Pållen wrote:
> I haven't been able to compile the kernel. After an hour or so I get this:
> 
> ../../../../ufs/ffs/ffs_balloc.c:1: syntax error before `endorse'
> ../../../../ufs/ffs/ffs_balloc.c:4: empty character constant
> ../../../../ufs/ffs/ffs_balloc.c:10: syntax error before `PROFITS'

This looks like text from the copyright and license of that source file. 
It looks to me like the first 1024 bytes of that file are missing.

You should re-fetch that file; its broken.

	-is